Section 1782.

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(a) No foreign (other nation) bank that is licensed to maintain a representative office shall relocate the office unless the commissioner shall have first approved the relocation and issued a license authorizing the bank to maintain the office at the new site.

(b) If the commissioner finds the following with respect to an application by a foreign (other nation) bank for approval to relocate a representative office, the commissioner shall approve the application:

(1) In case the new site of the office is in the same vicinity as the old site, that the relocation of the office will not be substantially detrimental to the public convenience and advantage; or

(2) In case the new site of the office is not in the same vicinity as the old site:

(A) That the relocation of the office from the old site will not be substantially detrimental to the public convenience and advantage in the area that is primarily served by the office at the old site; and

(B) That the relocation of the office to the new site will promote the public convenience and advantage.

If the commissioner finds otherwise, the commissioner shall deny the application.

(c) Whenever an application by a foreign (other nation) bank for approval to relocate a representative office has been approved and all conditions precedent to the issuance of a license authorizing the bank to maintain the office at the new site have been fulfilled, the commissioner shall issue the license.

(d) Promptly after a foreign (other nation) bank that is licensed to maintain a representative office relocates the office, the bank shall surrender to the commissioner the license that authorized it to maintain the office at the old site.

(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 243, Sec. 3. (SB 664) Effective January 1, 2012.)


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